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The doctrine of expectation is rooted in religious Messianism and it is considered the basis for the Reappearance of the Promised Mahdi (AS) and the forerunner of political and social developments in the discourse of the Islamic Revolution. On the one hand, the Islamic Revolution has the task of paving the way and preparing the conditions for the Reappearance of the Savior and on the other hand, the doctrine of expectation paints a vision of a prosperous, just, secure, and peaceful society, hence the mission of the discourse of the Islamic Revolution is to strive for the realization and formation of a "new Islamic civilization." This aim is realized by adopting the strategy of Islamic resistance against the system of domination and also the Islamic awakening and the export of the values and norms of the Islamic Revolution. The expansion of the depth of Iran's strategic influence in the Islamic world is a sign of the realization of this civilization-building mission.

The spontaneous, swift, and a truly people's revolution that convulsed Iran towards the end of the 1970s was deliberately and coherently lead by a situational coalescing of forces that included grass-root clerics, religious leaders, small political groups, non-clerical individual political activists and propagandists, that were provoked by a pervasively corrupt, plundering, brazenly Westernising puppet regime of the Shah – who was quite simply seen as 'America's Man in the Gulf and the Middle. East' — that had totally alienated the masses by its crass insensitivity and brutal oppression, in which neither the military nor the peasants featured significantly. The US did not perceive it as a genuine urge of the Iranian people, the rest of the West took time to accept it as a fact to be adjusted to, while the Soviet Union and much of the Asiatic world showed a better understanding of the revolution to develop cordial relations with the new regime believing it to be closer to the people. Notwithstanding the alarm and anxiety that it may have caused in neighbourhood and elsewhere initially, there does not now seem to be much possibility of universalisation of the Islamic revolution, not only because the revolutionary process in Iran itself has made way for serious national development through economic liberalisation but also because the rest of the Islamic world, riven still by the eternal Shia-Sunni schism, is determined to resist penetration of Iranian ideas in their respective domains.

Abrahamian reviews 'The Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic' by Moshen Milani.

Analyse der iranischen Politik gegenüber Afghanistan seit Beginn der islamischen Revolution unter besonderer Berücksichtigung derjenigen Faktoren, die für eine Einschätzung der künftigen iranisch-afghanischen Beziehungen von Bedeutung sind. Erörtert werden: die Auswirkungen der Afghanistankrise auf die offiziellen Beziehungen zwischen beiden Ländern; die Haltung Irans gegenüber dem afghanischen Widerstand (Favorisierung der Schiiten); die Behandlung der afghanischen Flüchtlinge in Iran (sunnitische Flüchtlinge als Opfer der proschiitischen Politik); iranische Bemühungen um Beilegung des Afghanistankonflikts; Auswirkungen des iranisch-irakischen Kriegs; politische Differenzen innerhalb der iranischen Führungselite über die Afghanistanfrage. (DÜI-Hns)